Colin Fine

basically, we've utterly erased the rights & healthcare access of a vulnerable minority because a very small group (of apparently very well-connected) of people became fanatical about it & the (also very small) group who decide press coverage decided they needed relentless coverage

And so she should!

Another instance of what I'm coming to think of as "guides' disease": telling an appealing but bogus story about the origin of a phrase.
This time it's not a guide speaking it, but a printed guide.
Why is it bogus? Well the dates are suspect, but mostly because *it doesn't fit the meaning!*

I haven't had that. But the clinic who did my cataract surgery use a device to measure the pressure (glaucoma test) that apparently does make context with the eyeball but is much less uncomfortable than the puff of air I've had everywhere else.

Please see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... .
I will put a message on your user talk page later when I'm at my computer

Another occasional but recurring item on the help pages is a rant about how Wikipedia has been taken over by the lib***ds, and they're never going to donate again.

Indeed. Those of us who inhabit the various help desks see that the largest single group of questions is from people who want to know how to "make a page for…", and most of those actually have the purpose of promoting something or something, though they usually wouldn't put it that way.

It's important to realise that "Wikipedia" doesn't do this.
Individual Wikipedia editors do it, supported by the community of Wikipedia editors.

@molly.wiki 's post acknowleged this.

(Please don't take this as a criticism of your post: I'm seeking to give context)

I'll see your Hambledon and raise you a Slaithwaite.

How do you think I feel making it to my 70th yesterday?
I remember when I first got a full driving licence, that expiry date 2025 was unimaginably far in the future!
Happy birthday

I didn't know about that!

2/n. It took something like a minute.
I observed that the input was nearly all in order to start with, so I reversed the algorithm, and it went much faster.
I had no idea there were standard sorting algorithms. I'd never heard of Computer Science.

The very first task I was given, in my very first job (part of National Control Reprogramming with the CEGB): write code to sort a list of substation names.
So I wrote some code (pretty well my first ever) to do it in an obvious way.
It worked, but slowly. 1/n

LOLs reading this thread.

Brought by Dutch weavers, I'll hazard

It's not quite the same phenomenon, but this reminds me of gemination in Japanese.
The preceding morpheme (originally a closed syllable in Middle Chinese) on its own is realised bisyllabically (eg itsu, tachi).
But preceding certain consonants it produces a geminate, eg ichi+sho -> issho.

I came here to say that!

I suspect that's not the demographic the Telegraph is addressing

Nostalgia isn't what it was.

Wow! I knew "quoth" was OE, but I always supposed "quote" was somehow derived from it.

The 'Great Noticing' Era Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

Never

What? You egg?

Flowers for Algorithm

Like "estate"

*Slow handclap*

Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner:

Yn Esperanteg (?) mae "vi"'n Swedeg "ni" a mae "ni"'n Swedeg "vi".
Ac yn Hebraeg mae "mi"'n "who", mae "hu"'n "he", a mae "hi"'n "she"

Masham.
It's "mass-em", but them not from round here (like me ten years ago) always say "mash-em"

Do you know Farah Mendlesohn's "The pleasant profession of Robert A Heinlein"? I think you'd enjoy it.

Absolutely.
I'm currently rehearsing a (non -professional) production of Macbeth, and it is very obvious which of the other actors understand what they're saying, and which don't quite. I am hoping the latter get it by the time we go up.